By Yonatan Sompolinsky

There’s a series of Medium posts by Yonatan Sompolinsky (@hashdag), one of Kaspa theoreticians, explaining his views and decisions about Kaspa. It’s very useful if you want to get the overall impression of what are Kaspa philosophy, history, basics and tradeoffs:

• “Kaspa: Where to” July 5, 2022
• “In which I have no patience to wait ’til by and by” December 27, 2020
• “In which I love my truly, truly fair” December 13, 2020
• “In which I run with the GHOSTs of my hometown” November 23, 2020
• “In which mayday mayday we are syncing about” May 4, 2020

There is even more to read there, but part of that info could have become outdated. https://hashdag.medium.com

By Shai Wyborski

Shai (@deshe–discord) is another Kaspa theoretician, here’s his review of what’s and why’s (mainly about the PHANTOM and GHOSTDAG):

• “Kaspa — What are We Actually Doing Here?” November 27th, 2021
• “Are High Block Rates Limiting Smart Contracts–(Spoiler:No) September 23, 2022
• “Transaction Collisions and the effective TPS of inclusive BlockDAGs” September 28, 2022

Yonatan Sompolinsky and Michael Sutton

The DAG KNIGHT Protocol: A Parameterless Generalization of Nakamoto Consensus: October 31, 2022.

Yonatan Sompolinsky, Shai Wyborski, Aviv Zohar:

PHANTOM GHOSTDAG: a scalable generalization of Nakamoto consensus: September 2, 2021. AFT 2021: 57-70

Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar:

Bitcoin’s underlying incentives. Commun. ACM 61(3): 46-53 (2018)

Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar:

PHANTOM: A Scalable BlockDAG Protocol. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2018: 104 (2018)

Ayelet Sapirshtein, Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar:

Optimal Selfish Mining Strategies in Bitcoin. Financial Cryptography 2016: 515-532

Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar:

Bitcoin’s Security Model Revisited. CoRR abs/1605.09193 (2016)

Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg, Aviv Zohar:

SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2016: 1159 (2016)